Paralanguage: A Linguistic and Interdisciplinary Approach to Interactive Speech and Sound - Rilegato

Poyatos, Fernando

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1556191499 ISBN 13: 9781556191497

Casa editrice: John Benjamins Pub Co, 1993

Riassunto

This is the first interdisciplinary book-length treatment of paralanguage, briefly defined as: nonverbal vocal or narial communication. After sensitizing the reader to our sound-generating movements and to all human external and environmental sounds for their unquestionable communicative qualities, it realistically combines an anatomical-physiological auditory approach to voice production (identifying many neglected articulations) with the analysis of its visual manifestations as the triple reality of speech: language-paralanguage-kinesics. The primary qualities of speech (loudness, pitch etc.) are extensively discussed, as are the many voice qualities. The longest chapter in the book deals with paralinguistic differentiators: laughter, crying, sighing, yawning, coughing, sneezing etc. Finally the author presents a model for analyzing paralinguistic alternants, word-like independent constructs (such as Pooh, Aah and Brrr). Throughout the discussion of these paralinguistic phenomena, extensive attention is given to cultural, social and psychological aspects. This first, ground-breaking interdisciplinary work on paralanguage will serve as a source of data and a theoretical/methodological model for phoneticians, linguists, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, speech therapists etc.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1556191499
• ISBN 13: 9781556191497
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 492
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile